Tribe: Upper Snake River Tribes
View Source Document: USRT Adaptation Strategy Database _Full Version Aug 2020
Year: 2020
Topic: Columbia Spotted Frog
Avoid new water diversions if habitat would be affected.
Leave springs (frog hibernation areas) undeveloped, including the outflow streams (which serve as movement corridors).
Protect beavers from trapping; reintroduce beavers in areas where a need for dam-building activities of beavers has been identified; beaver-induced...
Identify, restore and/or enhance, and manage areas of historic unoccupied and potential Columbia spotted frog habitat within the presumed historic...
Determine the distribution of breeding populations of Columbia Spotted Frog.
Identify and protect critical terrestrial habitats (e.g., movement zones, and seasonally wet areas that are not identified as “wetlands”) as...
Protect permanent ponds and river and stream habitat within at least 500 m of breeding ponds.
Maintain natural vegetation buffer zones around ponds; for example, 160 m from the edge of wetlands and 30-100 m along...
Fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides should not be applied within 100m of water bodies and wetlands until lethal and sublethal impacts...
Develop a Columbia spotted frog Species Management Plan.
Remove livestock from known hibernation sites.
Conduct annual workload analysis to determine the budgetary and biological staffing needs to accomplish conservation actions identified in the implementation...
